The answer is:
B. What people are usually doing while suffering is taking place.
In the poem "Musée des Beaux Arts," the author W. H. Auden makes reference to Icarus' horrible fall into the sea, which happens unnoticed by nearby people who are performing their own daily activities. In this way, the writer intends to highlight that sometimes people are so engaged in their ordinary labors that they fail to acknowledge when torment and anguish occur to others.
